I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
BILL WATTERSONHello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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